The tragic thing about Obama is the party that he is affiliated with. He’s obviously smart, reasonable, less angry, and more thoughtful than most of his Democratic peers in national politics. That’s why so many people like him. But he’s not a scrapper. And he has no managerial experience. He’s an intellectual. Say what you will about Romney’s flip-flopping or Giuliani’s lechery, there’s little doubt they’ll run the show if they make it to the White House. This quality is no small asset to a would-be executive.
Imagine an Obama victory. It’s reasonably likely. After being sworn in as President, the swarm would begin. All of these pushy and greedy special interests–which make up 90% of the Democratic Party and its power–will come around and stake out territory if he wins. It’s time to get paid after being snubbed for eight years. There will be feminists, black race hustlers, medical malpractice lawyers, Armenian nationalist groups, the National Council of La Raza, unions, farmers, Bosnians, Israelis, the CAIR crowd, peaceniks, abortionists, some corporate interest types, sickly socialized healthcare advocates, gay parents, gay soldiers, random Hollywood powerbrokers, farmers, gun grabbers, school teachers, college presidents, Iraqis, Saudis, Iranians, stem cell researchers, death row inmates’ families, former Clinton officials, and anyone else you can think of.
And they’ll all be barking about they want this and that, and he “owes them,” and “its our turn.” And, in the name of a “new kind of politics,” he’ll politely give them all that they want, make some noncommittal speeches about how such a gesture constitutes moving forward, and we’ll see the worst smorgasbord of government giveaways since President Carter.
Because Obama is many things, but he’s not a Bill-Clinton-esque-DLC-shrink-the-government type. He has no commitment to cutting pork or moving the Democrats to the right. Likewise, he has no strength for enduring the costs of getting anyone, particularly on the left, mad at him. Consider his gallantry in the face of Clinton’s various calumnies. He has a decency about him coupled with a certain sense of being above it all.
But Obama’s too weak and too liberal to reign in all of these groups. His decency and ideological commitments won’t allow it. It will be quite a spectacle. Obama’s White House will not be his own. It will belong rather to the army of parasites that make up today’s Democratic Party.
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Thanks for visiting, and the lovely comment! Woohoo, I can’t wait to watch Hillary concede. Again.
His campaign thus far has been vacuous and policy-free, but chalk that up to strategy. Remember, he got elected to the Illinois legislature from south Chicago and got involved in an electoral scrape against Bobby Rush, from which he learned much that he put into practice in his Senate race. If he gives policy over to that army of parasites, it will be because his politics are in general agreement with theirs, not because he owes them or wants to move forward. I don’t know anything about the man’s ability to manage anything except that the Harvard Law Review lived to see another volume under his presidency, but you don’t survive Illinois and Chicago politics without sharp elbows:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/obamas_alinsky_jujitsu.html
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